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Drawing inside an opacity mask

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Drawing inside an opacity mask

In this exercise, I am going show you had add objects to on opacity mask. I will saved my progress as Empty opacity mask.ai and I am going to go ahead and scroll down here, so I can see the reflection. Now let's say I want modify the opacity mask, well, I look here to the transparency panel and I can't see it, in my case, you may be able to, if you are still working along with me but I can't see mine. Why is that? Well I don't have the right layer selected, so I click on it. Still can't see it and that's because I need to select that exact object that contains the opacity mask and that happens be the entire layer so I need to meatball it, like so and now I can see both the contents of the layer represented in the left-hand thumbnail and the layer mask represented in right-hand thumbnail. Now, the layer mask happens to be completely white, which means that I can see the entire contents of this layer. I am going click on the Opacity Mask to edit it. This is a very important step and…

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